Bug 262037

Summary: [GTK] Print should always use scale 1.0, not the screen scale
Product: WebKit Reporter: Milan Crha <mcrha>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: bugs-noreply, e.rezzonico
Priority: P2    
Version: Other   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Flags
Horrible looking printout when setting display scaling to 175%
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normal looking printout when setting display scaling to 100% none

Milan Crha
Reported 2023-09-25 07:06:07 PDT
Moving this from a downstream bug report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2525 When printing a page with system-set scaling other than 1.0 (I managed to reproduce at least under GNOME with gnome-tweaks->Fonts->Scaling factor set to 2.00, but I guess the screen scale for hiDPI might work similarly), then this scale factor should be ignored when sending the page to the printer, to save space and paper and toner and electricity. This is with webkit2gtk4.1-2.42.0-1.fc38.x86_64 Steps: a) verify the gnome-tweaks->Font->Scaling factor is 1.00 b) run from a terminal: /usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.1/MiniBrowser https://www.webkitgtk.org c) once the page loads, use the menu button->Print d) Choose "Print to File" and select the file, then confirm the print e) quit the Minibrowser f) set the gnome-tweaks->Font->Scaling factor to 2.00 g) repeat steps b), c), d), just save to a different file I'd expect the files from d) and g) will be the same, but the g) file has larger font.
Attachments
Horrible looking printout when setting display scaling to 175% (253.42 KB, application/pdf)
2024-10-03 11:02 PDT, erezzonico
no flags
normal looking printout when setting display scaling to 100% (244.25 KB, application/pdf)
2024-10-03 11:06 PDT, erezzonico
no flags
erezzonico
Comment 1 2024-10-03 11:02:31 PDT
Created attachment 472791 [details] Horrible looking printout when setting display scaling to 175%
erezzonico
Comment 2 2024-10-03 11:03:30 PDT
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erezzonico
Comment 3 2024-10-03 11:05:06 PDT
I want to confirm this behavior. Please fix. Printing on machines with HiDPI settings is almost impossible
erezzonico
Comment 4 2024-10-03 11:06:18 PDT
Created attachment 472792 [details] normal looking printout when setting display scaling to 100%
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